38 JEROME CARDAN. 



Chapter the Fifteenth. ON PRUDENCE TOWARDS 

 ENEMIES. 



Never talk about your enemies. 



Speak fairly to enemies who hide their designs, even 

 though you may intend to be revenged upon them. 



If you hate a man, though only in secret, never trust 

 him, because hate is hardly to be hidden. 



* With enemies do not speak personally, but through 

 messengers. 



Chapter the Sixteenth. ON PRUDENCE IN SOCIETY. 



Avoid, those who are wicked, envious, foolish, talkative, 

 passionate, proud, given to laugh at others, or ungrateful. 



Do not be querulous, meddlesome, morose, or too in- 

 quisitive. 



* Put no trust in a red Lombard, a black German, a 

 blinking Tuscan, a lame Venetian, a tall, thin Spaniard, a 

 bearded woman, a curly-pated man, or a Greek. 



Avoid nothing so much as men who speak well and act 

 wickedly. 



* It is a part of happiness to mingle with the happy ; 

 diligently avoid, therefore, the company of the unfor- 

 tunate. 



* Whoever calls you gambler, calls you a sink of vices. 

 Contemn no man for a bodily deformity ; the mind is 



the whole man. 



